Following a letter of transmittal, this document presents General Agent of Education in Alaska, Sheldon Jackson's ninth annual report on the introduction of reindeer into Alaska. Jackson notes that 1899 saw an unusually large number of employees connected to the herds. The discovery and opening of the Cape Nome gold mines created reindeer…

At Alaska's Red Dog mine, a federally funded program enables mine workers, especially Alaska Natives, to rotate on-the-job training with classroom instruction and advance to better positions. (SK)

General Agent for Alaskan Education Sheldon Jackson's 11th annual report to the Interior secretary on the introduction of reindeer into Alaska from Siberia notes that a number of reindeer were secured from the Ola, Siberia, region for crossing with existent herds. Jackson reports on the herds at Eaton Reindeer Station, at mission stations, and…

In the eighth annual report on introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska, General Agent for Alaskan Education Sheldon Jackson notes that 1898 saw a government relief expedition to whalers stuck in ice near Point Barrow as well as a government commission sent to Lapland to procure a Lapp colony and purchase a herd of reindeer to transport…

Surveys of Alaska Native high school students in 2 "hub" towns and 13 villages found significant gender and town-village differences in student aspiration to college, confidence in quality of local education, intention to migrate, and intention to work in mining or oil. Differential migration affects life prospects and acculturation of…

This document is designed to help teachers and administrators in Alaska develop secondary and postsecondary training in nonrenewable natural resources. Its competencies reflect those needed for entry-level employment in the following industries as identified by international businesses surveyed in Alaska: gas and petroleum, coal, placer, and…

Volume 2 begins with Chapter 28 and the coeducation of the sexes in the United States. Other chapters cover: (1) the present educational movement in the Philippine Island by Fred W. Atkinson, general superintendent of public instruction in the Philippines; (2) list of foreign universities and other institutions of higher education; (3) general…

This guide was developed as a supplement to the Alaska Department of Education's industrial education curriculum. The special topics included in it focus on competencies from the curriculum for which materials were not readily available to Alaskan teachers and provide information that may not be sufficiently covered by existing curricula. Each…

Written with the broad goal of involving high school students in Bristol Bay, Alaska, in the planning and design of their region's future, this combined teacher guide and student text contains the final three units of a seven-unit curriculum. Unit V looks at oil development in the Bering Sea, covering topics such as Alaska's dependence on oil,…